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clare@stormlake.com on Wed, 02/28/2018 - 9:19am
EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK
BY ART CULLEN
Neither sleet nor ice nor dark of day could keep John and Jackie Norris from their appointed round of Northwest Iowa on Saturday, including a stop at Diane Hamilton’s home here before the county crews could show the way on Casino Beach Road.
Submitted by
clare@stormlake.com on Wed, 02/21/2018 - 9:57am
Few Democrats campaign for the rural poor anymore
EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK
BY ART CULLEN
Submitted by
clare@stormlake.com on Wed, 02/14/2018 - 9:15am
EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK
BY ART CULLEN
It’s time for major employers to stand up for their workers. In our editorial today we lament the tragic story of the mayor of Alta trying to use the threat of eviction to convince an absentee landlord to clean up a dilapidated trailer court. Again, immigrant residents live in fear of losing their home and having no place to go. Many of them work at Tyson in Storm Lake, pork and turkey.
Submitted by
clare@stormlake.com on Wed, 02/07/2018 - 9:42am
EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK
BY ART CULLEN
Submitted by
clare@stormlake.com on Wed, 01/31/2018 - 9:05am
EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK
BY ART CULLEN
Submitted by
clare@stormlake.com on Wed, 01/24/2018 - 9:06am
EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK
BY ART CULLEN
Iowa State University President Wendy Wintersteen sat down for a nice chat with the crew from Iowa Public Television’s “Iowa Press” program over the weekend. It was the first chance I’ve had to hear her since she ascended from dean of the College of Agriculture to Beardshear Hall last October, filling a vacancy left with the resignation of President Steve Leath.
Here’s what I took away from it:
Submitted by
clare@stormlake.com on Wed, 01/17/2018 - 9:03am
EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK
BY ART CULLEN
Donald Trump’s characterization about Africa, Haiti and El Salvador was posed as a question that has not received much of an answer since he blurted it Friday. Why should we take people from these countries and not Norway? he wondered.
Submitted by
clare@stormlake.com on Wed, 01/10/2018 - 9:08am
EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK
BY ART CULLEN
The two most interesting buildings in Storm Lake to me, as they so often are in any town, are two churches: Lakeside Presbyterian because it is so iconic of The City Beautiful, its clock spire shrouded by snowflakes; and St. Mary’s Catholic, which I argue is one of the greatest works of art in Iowa.
Submitted by
clare@stormlake.com on Wed, 01/03/2018 - 8:54am
EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK
BY ART CULLEN
I was down with a touch of the flu before Christmas for a week. My book editor asked if I would like to read a tome about flu, and I told her only if it were written by Dave Barry, the funny man from the Miami Herald. She sent me a book by John M. Barry, not Dave, entitled The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History (Penguin-Random House). I already had the stuffings flushed out of me earlier that week but this book would have done the trick in scaring it out of me.
Submitted by
clare@stormlake.com on Wed, 12/27/2017 - 9:12am
EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK
BY ART CULLEN
2017 dawned with the inauguration of Donald Trump, so I am happy to be through it. He is a disgrace to democracy, to the Presidency and to the Constitution. Fortunately, 2018 is nearly upon us and we have a chance to talk back to Twitter with our votes. Iowa will send a message in 2018 that probably will be heard into 2020.
